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Ian Frazier Quotes

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

Ian Frazier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1951

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Me Writing Book Write Forever Own

In the wake of the San Francisco scene, ears were alive. It was a listening generation.

Jimmy Page

Listening Generation Alive Ears Wake

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Jerome K. Jerome

Time Shadow World Eternity

The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it.

Max Lucado

Grace Think You Never Single Coming

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.

Ani DiFranco

Beautiful Guitar Down True Sound Up

I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.

John Wayne

Together Me Name Nobody Become Well

I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didn't want to be either one.

Suheir Hammad

Family Education Doctor Lawyer Paths

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

Trey Parker

Stars Truth Baseball People Crazy

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

Douglas Hurd

Fear Character Will Always Suffer

I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it's going to make them better people later on.

Drew Barrymore

Time Childhood School Humility Think

I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot.

Donnie Wahlberg

Work Me Start Someone Go Big

America will start winning again, winning like never before.

Donald Trump

Winning Start America Will Never

Is typecasting really a problem?

Christopher Walken

Problem Really